December 1991. South Africa dismantles six thermonuclear devices. July 1994. Weeks after the Government of Reconciliation takes power the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence learns that a nuclear weapon has surfaced in the hands of an international arms dealer. Open for business the country cannot afford anything that would rock the boat. The bomb must be found and nobody must ever know it existed. But who to trust? In charge of the very organisation that put him behind bars, he needs outside help. Enter Harry Dance, ex-special forces and sometime fellow prisoner on The Island. And for insurance he teams him up with his own man and Harry can't stand terrorists, not even newly respectable ones. Soon Harry discovers they are dealing with far more than an old fashioned atom bomb. No problem. But he has never been up against a stone killer who makes death an emotional experience with a silver handled stiletto...The story behind Red Mercury and the race for the ultimate weapon of terror.